Heosemys

Taxobox
name = "Heosemys"


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image_caption = Arakan Forest Turtle ("H. depressa")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
superfamilia = Testudinoidea
familia = Bataguridae
subfamilia = Geoemydinae
genus = "Heosemys"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
Arakan Forest Turtle, "H. depressa"

Giant Asian Pond Turtle, "H. grandis"

Philippine Pond Turtle, "H. leytensis"

Spiny Turtle, "H. spinosa"

Heosemys is a genus of turtles in the family Bataguridae. The genus Heosemys was split out of the larger genus Geoemyda by McDowell (1964).

pecies

* Arakan Forest Turtle — "H. depressa" (Anderson, 1875)
* Giant Asian Pond Turtle — "H. grandis" (Gray, 1860)
* Spiny Turtle — "H. spinosa" (Bell, 1830)

The Cochin Forest Cane Turtle ("Geoemyda silvatica" now regarded as "Vijayachelys silvatica") for a time was placed in Heosemys, as was the Sulawesi Forest Turtle ("Leucocephalon yuwonoi") and the Philippine Pond Turtle ("Siebenrockiella leytensis").

External links

* [http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/12/prop/E12-P22.pdf Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora paper] (PDF)
* [http://heosemys.org/identification.php Key to identifying Heosemys species]